• Use these as your study guides. Each one is a concept (not a definition).
  • I use these concepts to write the exam/quiz questions
  • Generally, you should be able to write 2-3 sentences about each # (with no notes)
  • Create a checklist - cross them off as you study
  • Use student hours (or email) for ones you don’t quite get
  • Start with #s and expand outward when studying
  • Extra Credit Mastery Cards are based on these

#Fossil Clues

#Early Evolution Theories

#Shared Ancestry

Fossils buried in those rocks tell the evolutionary story of life on Earth…

Cuvier’s findings refute the idea of species permanence

Scientists after Cuvier (i.e., Darwin) now had to account for extinction as fact

Example: Wooly Mammoths appear and then disappear in the fossil record.

• Lines of descent (early evolution theory)
  • compared living giraffes with fossil forms
  • evolution = ‘life evolves from simple to more complex’ as organisms passed developed characteristics to their offspring

I wish I was like six-foot-nine so I can get with Leoshi…

The fossil record lets us explore the ancestors that anything living (including us) evolved from